So, ideally, you would be able to export your text document, and all of these lovely footnotes you have made in Scrivener, using Zotero, would just magically work in a Word or LibreOffice document. Moving from Scrivener to a document, and keeping your footnotes!
Select the reference you want, and drag it into the empty footnote section.ģ. Just pull up your Zotero (either from Firefox, or if you have the standalone version). Zotero makes it easy to put the reference in that new empty footnote with drag and drop citations. Select the reference in Zotero and drag it into the footnote box in Scrivener. Now you have a new, blank, footnote area to put a footnote reverence in. Or you can use the fancy shortcut keys, for faster typing and footnote inserting, Ctrl-Cmd-8 (⌃⌘8). Just highlight some text (the footnote will be inserted after the last word), and go to the Format menu and select Footnote. What if we want to edit the text a little bit, add some good stuff and add another footnote in there? What do we do? Well, Scrivener has a way to add a footnote. Sweet!Įasy as Format->Footnote, or use the shorcut keys Ctrl-Cmd-8 See there, footnote number 20, right after the quote about the cocktail of causes and rearmament being one of the ingredients? Now in Scrivener we have the word “ingredient” highlighted and underlined, and on the right side of the Scrivener window, there is a new footnote with all of the content of the original footnote. What is special, though is what Scrivener does with that footnote. Create new footnotes in Scrivener See how Scrivener makes a footnote! Then with your Scrivener project open, create a new text area, or select an existing one, which ever, and paste it in.
Just copy the text from your document and paste it into a Scrivener text area. It would be a shame to lose the footnotes, which is what happens if you just use Scrivener’s import file process. It’s needs some finessing in order to fit in the dissertation. I wrote a paper for Hist 811 that is basically the bulk of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of the dissertation. The first issue to run across is to put your existing documents into scrivener. Copy existing documents with footnotes into Scrivener Copy from LibreOffice From there, it’s easy to create Zotero connected footnotes. Here I will try to outline the process I found that will save footnotes from existing documents into Scrivener, and Scrivener created footnotes into exported documents.
#ZOTERO LIBREOFFICE SOFTWARE#
I don’t usually do that with software (as you can see, I like free and open source). Scrivener: The greatest writing software I’ve seen. I’m using the stand alone version, but you can use the Firefox extension as well.
Zotero: I’m certainly biased, but Zotero is the greatest citation management software evar! Also free and open source.
The steps will be basically the same if you are using Microsoft Word, just substitute that program for LibreOffice when it comes to it. Who knows how long I will have access to free Microsoft Word? LibreOffice (the fork of OpenOffice) will always be free and freely available. LibreOffice: Free and Open Source document software. So this is a quick write up of the tools I will use in writing my dissertation, and how I will use them. So now that I have finally started on my dissertation writing in earnest (and not grant writing), I needed to make sure that footnotes are usable in my work flow. Scrivener is awesome software for writing, that I’ve mentioned before, but I had yet to really test out the integration with Zotero (my citation manager of choice). (This post is cross-posted at my personal blog)
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